As things really are, the Parties have not yet come to such an understanding, said Alexander Yakovenko, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesman.
"Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister, and Salome Zurabishvili, his Georgian counterpart, met in Warsaw to discuss Russian blueprints, which appoint a deadline for Russian base withdrawal at the end of 2008. There was no understanding to finish the pullout before that year," stressed the diplomat.
The Foreign Ministers agreed on the two countries' delegations for military issues to go on with discussing the Russian blueprints. The delegations are to meet quite soon in Moscow or Tbilisi.
Russia presently has two military bases in Georgia - in Batumi, Adzharia, on the Black Sea coast, and in Akhalkalaki, Javakhetia - Georgian area along the Armenian frontier.
Abkhazia, unrecognized republic in Georgia, is eager to host Russian bases with their pullout, said Sergei Bagapsh, its leader.
